USE THESE FOUR STAR CHARACTERS! ★Best Genshin Impact 4 Star Tier List★ 

I’m glad he had so much respect for Fischl, the Prinzessin der Verurteilung, Sovereign of Immernachtreich, omniscient and eminent judge of all the world's iniquity. She’s the goat 🐐

Got Kuki once and Dori three times. Can confirm pulling for a 4 star has been the hardest pill to swallow as a new f2p player

Honestly, to put Layla C6 on mid is a crime. One of the strongest shields and great for freeze teams. As well as yungin

I still can't believe how kuki went from F tier to SS tier just because dendro was added to game

i like how u separate 4* constellations. other creators use c6 for 4* bc they assume everyone has been around long enough to have them but it’s not the case. you’re def up there for useful info

I'd say layla is great, she has so much uptime and her burst is fine for cryo application. Also the stars on her shield do hit enemies. I'd say she's solid

I think Kaeya has the edge over Rosaria because he can heal himself, and it's more significant because it scales off attack and his skill doesn't have a long cooldown.

Not to mention Xingqiu's Rain Swords also can provide a ton of damage reduction! I've noticed some of those later Abyss enemies can hit like freaking trucks, so the DT reduction is quite nice!

Honestly, Heizou should be a bit higher. He's doing a real good job as an elemental driver in a electro charged team

As a new player who got Laila as one of the first characters I have to say she is great. Her shield lasts forever and the stars apply some cryo to the enemies... I agree as I move on on the game, better characters will have a spot on my team, but she's got me where I am because I don't die so easy

Really good insights, thanks for the list! The only thing I mainly disagree with is Layla, her shield is solid af and has zero downtime, and I don't know why you said her cryo application isn't great, I find her one of the best in this role because of how large her burst's aoe is and even her shield provides off-field cryo. The only thing she falls short on is her personal damage.

Disrespecting the shield queens Layla and Noelle both need to be bumped up a list. Diona lost her spot to layla in most my teams. Shielding is still more important than heals unless you are running triple dendro. Layla is also in a great element for consistent application. Better in freeze, better in mono cryo and better in Eula.

Yunjin shouldnt be so low imo, she is niche but on the teams she works with shes super nice

Layla is S tier for me, I have her C1 and she is amazing, her shield has 100% uptime and her burst has a really wide range, she is the only thing keeping my team alive and honestly as a f2p you really dont need to invest thousand of primogems into other shielders if you have Layla

The disrespect putting Heizou and Layla C6 below Xinyan... I'm coming for you!

I know it's been a few months but Layla is literally so valuable. I don't have a Zhongli, so she's by far my best shield. I run her with my Hu Tao, Xingqiu and Yelan and it's absolutely amazing!

While I respect this ranking, I think Heizou is more than worth pulling for and building. My current team is Yelan, Yoimiya, Heizou, and Kazuha and Heizou hits 25k-30k easy with no problems and sometimes I find myself reaching to use him more than my Yoimiya or Ayaka. He was really easy to build, especially if you’re using widsith for some extra crit

I see babygirl Thoma in thumbnail, I click

i gotta say, candace and yaoayo is a shockingly good core for bloom/hyperbloom/burgeon. yaoyao doing n1j during her burst has insane value, candace burst into kuki e n1, flex unit, then yaoyao burst is great ; it does have some down time without constellations but with two healers and candaces counter, you have no reason to ever die - and bloom damage is all based on kuki's element mastery anyway so the other damage is merely a bonus

Might not be super common but I love using Kaeya and Rosaria on the same team. Give them decent ER and they'll spam their bursts on one rotation. Couple that with Bennet C6 and Kazuha and the melt/reverse melts are crazy. Kazuha pulls the enemies into her burst as well and it's just destruction

I LOVE faruzan. Even in my anemo spa teams, I find myself using faruzan on field a lot! She’s just so fun, love her character design, her voice lines and the en va did great with her!

Man I’m feelin that disclaimer. Dori C1, Layla C2, and Nahida from this banner. Kuki is nowhere to be seen, and she’s the one I was pulling for

Noelle gives heals and until I got Yao Yao and Baizhu in one breath, I was running her as heals. She is also great for co op if you have goofy friends who like to hurt themselves and don't bring heals.

I think you'll come to change your mind about Heizou if you actually built a team around him. I mean, dude can hit a milly with his punch. Not a lot of characters can do that. Run lavawalker on him. Bennett, and another pyro and it's wraps for anything in the game

I think Beidou is very underrated. I agree with where you put her. She is one of the highest damaging characters in the game even against 5 stars when she's in scenarios with 2 targets. my Beidou does 27k per tick and she does 5 ticks per second in scenarios with 2 targets so that's 135k dmg per second, very underrated.

Sayu is great for exploring and farming.. she can easily get minerals, she goes fast and she can get close to animals which is good if you need yo collect frogs or lizzards 🤭.

For heizou,you should put him as SS rank because he basically carried all of my team when I do abyss or. Commission or a quest

Ningguang is the best 4 star character in my opinion, she CARRIES me. she's the strongest character I have and I barely have to invest any time into building her. super satisfying attacks and super easily to use, I highly recommend.

Love this tier list. I ended up using a Guilded/Glad Chongyun in the hardest Abyss cycle to date as a burst nuke against the 12-3 priest boss, and he really worked well to shred the Hydro shield and do quick big numbers in the short span of time you have to deal DMG to the boss. Personally I would rate him higher than C6 Collei because of that aspect of his kit alone - super quick burst DMG that can deal big numbers, and can melt every time with the right team comp!

Good list, i mostly agree and could follow your reasoning. One placement i cannot leave uncommented though, sorry: Faruzan earns her spot in a Team before c6. She's at least mid. yes she's niche. yes she needs tons of energy until c6, but that's only loss on her personal damage. BUT: 30% anemo res reduction and 18-38% anemo dmg bonus is a lot, especially anemo shred is very rare. 80% buff uptime at c0 (the effect lasts 4s after the last pulse, so it's not only 12 sec) is sufficient, and 100% uptime at c2 is amazing. the more an anemo user is your hypercarry, the more faruzan deserves that spot. her charged atk feels less clunky than sara pre c6 and her buff is more significant. She brought my xiao damage to a new level at c0, measurably. is she perfect? no, but she has workarounds like favonius bow and an ER sands. For f2p players without all the premium supports but a decent xiao, she'll often be your best choice for the 4th slot even at c0. i can't speak for wanderer.

I think layla should be on S, her shield is really strong and has zero downtime. She has extremely good cryo application imo

Faruzan may be godlike at c6 but she is also useful at c0! My xiao does much more damage with her.

there is a main difference between kaeya and rosaria that you didn't mention which i think really changes the ranking: the ascension talents. rosarias first ascension talent gives her up to 15% crit rate boost after teleporting behind an enemy and striking them with her skill. her second talent gives the on field character (that isnt rosaria) an up to 15% crit rate boost once her burst is deployed. kaeyas first acension talent regenerates hp up to 15% of his attack when an opponent is hit with his burst and his second talent generates 2 additional elemental particles when an opponent is frozen with his burst. imo, i think the pretty huge crit rate boost rosaria gives to the team gives her an edge up over kaeya since it allows her to not just be a better cryo support but also a more viable option of a main dps. just my opinion ^_^

I'm a collei main and to be honest, when you build her dps with the right artifacts and weapons, she can do 20k to 30k charged attacks / 50k to 60k charged attacks with buffs. I really enjoy her gameplay and I love being in co op seeing people be shocked at my dps collei lol.

i love your tier-list viceos, please make them on a regular basis so that i don't go insane wondering about who to pull for. thank you!

I got Yaoyao in her first banner pretty early on my game (i started genshin on December) and i completely love her, she's a great healer her dendro application can be very broked and she's really easy to build, don't sleep on her

As someone who is currently a Rosaria main (Waiting until Venti's banner to reappear to wish for him), I like that Rosaria got A tier. Also, for those that want to make Rosaria better, here's a tip: Turn her into a Tank. What I mean by this give her jacked attack, jacked hp, and the highest defence that you can, and try to keep those 3 things in balance. If you do it right like I did, you should get a version of Rosaria that could hold her own against a Final Fantasy XIV Tank character of the same level.

Maybe its because im a Heizou stan but when he put him low because of comparisons to Xaio and Wanderer when he put Razor Collei and Lisa above him despite them being clearly outclassed by 5 Stars of their respective elements-

For me Collei is great on an aggravate team because she's currently the only (I think?) character that applies dendro around the active character (requires C2). She's just really comfy to play with Cyno. And since I have her built already, I use her with my Tighnari from time to time as well. I just remembered Baizhu exists, but he's less accessible.

My C6 Yaoyao is one of my proudest max cons. She has been a staple in my team comps for the healing and the dendro application. When I first started playing Genshin and did not have any team comps, she kept my Xiao alive while also working well with Mona and Bennett. (My Xiao was a glass cannon in the beginning rng hates me)

Alina editing getting better and better, love to see the continued improvement. Got some legit funny edits here

My main gripe with this was Xinyan over Heizou... He can use VV and be a good driver plus his burst his grouping.

Not gonna lie, I got Sayu pretty early as a F2P and I used her as my DPS for a long time. Now I use her for healing because I still really love her but I’m glad to see the appreciation

As an f2p hyperbloom player i adore Barbaras skill because it can apply hydro off feild if you get close enough

I think your tier list is great and I like the fact that you took your time to explain why you were putting each character in each category, and I agree with most of them. However, I think you positioned Layla a bit too low. One of her upsides, compared to Diona, is that she can run the 4pc ToM set and benefits of its 2 buffs (shield strength and atk buff). At C1, she also gives a very good long lasting shield to all party members which only C2 Zhongli does, and the majority of the playerbase don't have him at that constellation. Diona can also gives shields to teammates bit they last only 5 seconds and aren't that strong. I don't have her C4 so I'm not sure if it's that effective but it also gives a normal and charge attack bonus based on her max HP. Anyway, I think that she is a great substitute for Zhongli who also buffs character damage through different ways (artifact set and constellation)

Thank you for saying that you have to learn and master Ningguang to use her, as Ningguang main I feel appreciated 💛 and it's true what u said, my team is tailored for her and with geo being geo I can't use her that often in abbys

I laugh at those who don't build Layla now. Schneznaya is coming soon, which means more cryo enemies, which means Layla would soon be the new best shielder in the game. She is already more flexible than zhongli for team comps. She hard carries my team in abyss

based editing from Alina! the vr and rosaria moments get me every time XD i really love layla's shield and she's just so cute! i hope i get her C6 one day. thanks for the fire vid, very helpful!

Recently got Bennett to C5 and decided to build him and MAN he gets the job done as a buffer AND a healer. Now I see myself putting him in almost all of my team comps especially my Vap comps

Finaaalllyy. I’ve been waiting for this knowledge sauce

although i wouldn't put sara higher than she is, i wanted to add that if you like her and have her at c6, you can build her for damage she also does very respectable burst dmg. I use her in hyper raiden teams and she's an extra 100k nuke, sometimes i can even use her to clear out mobs or weaker enemies to save raiden burst.

i use layla for my ganyu cause i don't have zonghli, but dear lord im so thankful for her, she keeps my ganyu alive and once her shield duration is gone, OO LOOK AT THAT, HER SKILL IS READY AGAIN, also her burst applies cryo and with xiangling's burst, it really help with melting lots of enemies, that too i have her at lvl 60 and she survives big enemy attacks that are lv 90+ if you want strong shield but too broke for zonghli, do use her :'D

damn the first genshin tierlist I basically have no problems with

Funny no one mention that Rosaria is a support while Kaeya is often used as a DPS. I see so much Kaeya Mains... And he does a great job. My Kaeya is C5 (cant wait until june...)10, 13,13. Crit rate 50 % but Blizzard Strayer 15% + his first constellation 15% + when used his skill ( or you run him with any other cryo) and opponents are on cryo another 15%. Crit Dmg 197%. He is almost perfekt. At C6 he is a absolut beast .My main Team with Ayaka, Raiden and Xingxiu. Depend on situation replace the hydro or cryo spot with Ayato or Senhe. And sorry to say it, my Rosaria is build very well, her Talents maxed, but she dosen´t reach his damage not even on C6. Often her burst annoys me because enemys step out of it many times. I can do Kaeyas burst the second it runs out again and it stands by me. Also his ATK is higher than of few 5 Stars and also higher than of some Claymore users (c6). Mine hits with NA around 2800, with CA around 3700 - 4500, also he heals himself on every opponent he hits with frostgnaw by 300. Altough this not sound much but he heals on every opponent he hits. Have to mention again that I miss his C6 and don´t finished building him yet. And also the fact, that he often is the last men standing. He is really amazing. Not regret him 1 Sec! Btw, often Benny C6 is unlocked to run Melt Kaeya. Will never do but a lot of players choose to do so.

As a new player tier lists are usually a thing I avoid but this is actually a pretty good basic breakdown on how the 4 stars work at C0 vs with constellations.

Personally of the four stars in the SS tier, I would rank them like this: c6 Xingqiu > c1 Bennett > c6 Sucrose > c2 Kuki > c6 Xiangling > c6 Fischl. Bennett has been phasing out of the meta the slightest bit, believe it or not, with all the new HP/EM scalers and dendro teams that don't want his pyro application. Meanwhile Xingqiu got buffed by dendro. His usage only looks lower because people rather use the waifu version of him.

As someone who just started playing genshin couple days, this vid is very helpful to me to focus on which 4 star characters i should build. I got xingqiu and sucrose from the 1st 10 pull and had no idea how to use them, so here i am 😊 thanks a lot

Really solid and valuable tier list, definitely felt like it was fair to all the characters' capabilities as a unit. My only quibble was calling Thoma "the weeb abroad" -- his father is an Inazuman so he's half Japanese, basically XD

I accidentally got Kuki C5 while trying to get a single copy of Nilou. I got annoyed at it until I looked at what she did and realized I got insanely lucky with how many I got of her LOL

I started a new account to build my characters properly... The first and second accounts were not so good. Maybe I'll get back to them one day. These tutorials help me a lot to understand this game. Thanks a lot.

I agree with most of the placements, but I highly disagree with Yunjin. She's niche, yes, but that shouldn't be much of a problem since Faruzan and Gorou are literally placed on Amazing tier when they only have 1-2 teams they're good with. She's actually useful to more teams than those two. At C2, she's already on par with Bennett for Yoimiya teams. Most Eula teams have the 4th slot flexible which you can run Yunjin with since her NAs are 50% of her damage. Not only that, we also have other NA DPSes like Ayato. She should at least be Solid tier. EDIT: Also, Sara should definitely be the highest among Faruzan and Gorou. She has a more generalist buff that more characters can benefit from since there are more DPS and sub DPS characters from electro (Yae, Beidou, Fischl, Raiden, Lisa, etc.). Also, at C6, she provides full buff with her skill and burst so easily while also dealing personal damage. Heck Gorou only buffs Itto and Noelle that well. Even Ningguang (who is literally from the same element as Gorou) doesn't even benefit that much. You might as well use Bennett instead. And for Faruzan, correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I know, you only get her full buff from her burst, while Sara provides the same buff with her burst and skill so she's not burst dependent as Faruzan.

Faruzan C6 basically makes her into a Anemo Bennett but she is still good at C0.Yes you might need around 275 ER with R5 Fav Bow but if you can play her she will boost your damage by a good margin. The only character that can replace her in the comp is probably Jean if you have her C2/C4.

Honestly, people throw c6 Bennett way out of proportion. Sure he messes up some teams, but the thing is, in all of the teams he messes up, which is a very limited amount, there are better options for that team’s win condition.

my tip for people that's trying to compile 4 star cons in limited banner is ATLEAST 2/3 of the 4 star you want cons are there and in the 5 star banner that you like more or a character that would help your account when you don't have the guarantee, if you want to be decently safe maybe pull up 70 pity then stop there so you can get a chance to pull another 10 or single pulls to a 5 star banner that you like more than the banner you're pulling the 4 star

Your channel has been so helpful to me. Im just started playing like two days ago, and i think i already have a pretty good insight into the game just because i watched some of your vids. Ofc i have a lot to learn, but i already know where to look for info. As a constructive tip, when doing this tier lists maybe it wouldbe better to put your cam window in the lower right corner of the screen, so we can see better the characters in the upper tiers. Just a tip. Great video dude tysm 😊

13:00 Actually... -Diona doesn't do damage cuz she wasn't made for that... (have you ever thought of that? Incredible right???) -She might not be the best battery (in theory), but she sheilds, heals, gives speed boost, and EM at c6. ARE YOU NOT SATISFIED? -Her heals are amizing btw, she always saves me when I most need it. -Lastly, her shield is actually really good and if you wanna compare, It's just slighly worse than Layla's! *Conclusion: The best thing in her is the amount of things she can do, even if she's not 'ThE bEsT' in every singe category, Especially considering she's A FRAKING FOUR STAR-* Oh yeah also pls stop saying Bennett is a great HEALER and here's why: -he only heals with his burst, wich has a really small AoE -he only heals until 70% So yeah hes an amazing character but pls, not as a healer

I have both Mika and Faruzan C0 and they work perfectly fine in the early game, and Faruzan is definitely worth it as she’s my only other bow character apart from Amber and I get much more use from her for exploration than I do Amber :))

Candance applies a lot of hydro so is good in hyperbloom, below xingqiu and yelan but still viable. Hydro infused weapons are different sources so they have separate icds, the hydro during swaps and hydro attacks with c6 can allow a lot of hydro application. Team comps like nahida candance kuki xingqiu. Should be in A tier

6:12 And just like this, you've lost me. Pirate Queen Beidou is SSS tier and nothing will say otherwise.

Brother I've seen heizou doing 2 milion damage with right combination on engineering plastics youtube channel. Heizou is truly anemo dps. Definitely solid B and above with right selection. Even c0 heizou can do 80k damage without elemental reaction I've seen that in game.

My approach to pulling for 4-stars is, I decide on how many pulls I'm going to invest in advance and then accept the result. If you can't have a guarantee, you need to be fine with not getting your 4-star.

I really think Mika was a little underrated, because beside his buffs for Physical he also has a Atk speed buff, which is greater then any other (whicher are exclusive to Constellations of other Characters or Weapons, like: C2 Jean, C4 Ayato and C6 Yunjin), another thing is that he actually has a pretty consistent heal at C1 and he peaks at efficiency for ASPD characters (Ayato, Wanderer and Yoimiya) at C5, but can be used even at C0.

Played for 3 years and still using international for my teams in spiral abyss. razor, diluc, ganyu melt, ayaka freeze, hu tao/sucrose overvape/taser have all constantly been replaced until the hyperbloom team of nahida yelan xingqiu kuki which has only similar clear time with the international team. Xiangling is op, I recently found out royal spear r5 is really good on her as she can snapshot 5% crit rate on guoba plus one normal attack to get 5 stacks to snapshot 85% crit rate on her pyronado.

Honkai star rail gives you your choice of a free 5 star character from the regular banner (so likenthe characters you get in genshins reg banner or when u lose a 50/50.. diluc, Jean, qiqi etc.) When you get to 300 pulls , the game also has various points , (not a whole bunch but at least 3 to 4 in the first like 3 weeks) gives you a 10 pack of star rail passes , iblve meber seen genshin give out more then like 2 wishes at a time I feel like lol

thank you for this vid :)

Xiangling bennet and xingqui need their own tier

Got Kuki c2 on Nahida’s banner and at level 40 she was still carrying my hyperbloom team

Now id like to see a list with 0c only, and maybe a possible team comp or two?

Finally! Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

how tf do u only have 16k subs. keep it up, man - your vids, editing, charisma def up there

Kuki c0 can reach SS tier if use thundering fury set to lower the cooldown of her skill. Even after getting c2, the set is comfy to use.

I absolutely commend you for tripple crowning Yun Jin. She's gorgeous, talented, and such a fair little lady. I wish I had to materials to tripple crown her myself because I also love her just that much but my three crowns are going to my Hu Tao because I love her about just as much and she's just way more powerful and so stupidly good as a DPS.

Stopped playing Genshin in 2.7. Started playing again yesterday. Want to say, its nice to find a new content creator for genshin. I like your upbeat attitude. Unfortunate the two characters I actually wanted, Kazuha and Yoimiya were in 2.8. But such is life.

I'm a new player (AR32) and every one I've received is from your mid tier or lower, Kuki being the only exception. If I hadn't gotten her I prolly woulda just gave up bc my luck is terrible 😢😅

Kuki was one of my first 4 star. I guess I should try her out. Never used her before.

It's crazy how 3 days into the game I already have all the national team members. It's a good time to start genshin because you can buy bennet rn

Started a new account for pure f2p for the hell of it a few weeks ago, and I was blessed with a Nahida and a C3 Kuki. Couldn't have asked for a better start. Except I'm not at the Chasm yet so Kuki's still locked at level 40 lmao I melt stuff in the overworld, but if I mess up she just dies instantly I will say, though, her C6 makes her even better. She is my favorite character on my main account. The only problem with Kuki sometimes is poorly timed swap-ins coupled with her health being reduced from her own E, and C6 is just an added safety net that's really valuable on the harder Abyss floors.

Is there a link to this tier list? I'd actually quite like to try rank almost every 4 star constellation individually just for my own reference

I love my xingqiu and c6 kuki shinobu. Can wait for xingqiu to be back in the start glitter so I can start getting constellations. Xingqiu is the perfect sub dps to enable my Keqing to electro charge everything to death.

The fact that we’re more than halfway through fontaine and still only got 2 hydro characters, both of them 5 stars, while getting 1 5 star cryo and 2 4 star cryo, is insane. We got 2 free 4 stars, neither of them hydro. We now have the same number of pyro characters in fontaine as hydro.

I really hope miyoho add a new 4☆ solid normal attack buffer in the future, it will help a lot of very strong DPS's like Yoimi, Haitham, Wrio and Ayato!

I'm really lucky that the first time I pulled xingqiu as my first not free 4 star not knowing how good he was, since then he's been my main, anyone can main as long as you like them enough, and he does a lot of damage considering I'm not farming artifacts and don't have sacrificial sword

Kuki main here but will use Lisa when fighting flying/floating mobs, like Eye of the Storm or when the Oceanid uses those diving hawks.

Candace and navia is SO FKIN GOOD- i use it all the time, since you make so many crystalise reactions

I honestly thought not having C6 Faruzan meant she was trash too, but I then decided to use my C1 level 50 Faruzan to see if this was true and my Heizou went from hitting well under 200k to hitting almost 200! Now with a slightly more leveled Faruzan, he’s managed to hit 250k :D Dps wise, Heizou is probably one of the best dps 4 stars, but I agree that if you don’t main him then he’s not worth it.

Xinqiu is so good on SO many of my teams with Yelan, Ayaka, Nahida, Raiden, Kuki...everyone, that I forget that my Xinqiu is only half built

How do you put an invincible healing shielder with dps under goro and beidou? Noelle out paces most of the A tier unless you havent seen any videos if playing her isnt your style

As an itto main c6 Bennett really doesn't bug me since it cant overide geo

I love the Barbara gassing, cuz take off field dendro and electro to get that literal hyperBOOM; additionally she is quite tanky due to her scaling purely on HP and mb EM due to hyperbloom love her all in all

i was actually praying beidou wouldnt go into mid tier so bad. im a beidou main and her counter-e + the c1 burst shield is EVERYTHING to me, i love her sm